Hi, DevOps fans Here’s a short but practical article on how to set up a maintenance page in AWS using CloudFront, ALB, and Terraform. I’ll assume you already know your way around Terraform, and understand the basics of Application Load Balancer and CloudFront. So let’s skip the “what is ALB” and dive into the real stuff! Also known as a “Service Works Page” or “Downtime Page”, a maintenance page...
How to deploy web application at AWS Fargate using terraform – Part 1
Hi, and welcome to detailed tutorial at how to deploy web application at AWS Fargate using terraform. Current tutorial assume that you already know and have several basic things/conceptions: You have active AWS account You have basic knowledge about next AWS components: VPC, network, route table, security group, Route 53, Target Group (TG), Application Load Balancer (ALB) You have installed...
Application and AWS CloudWatch as security monitoring tools
Hi cyber security fans. Welcome to the article “Application and AWS CloudWatch as security monitoring tools”, where we will speak about some DevSecOps best practices and not only. The article is built within 2 connected parts: How to use CloudWatch logs, understanding Application logs with CloudWatch insights and dashboards. Custom CloudWatch metrics and alerts as sensitive detector...
AWS Fargate DevOps: Autoscaling with Terraform at practice
Udemy Coupon: JUNEFARGATESALES – active 02.06.2025-02.07.2025; in case coupons are already expired, please check that page regularly – new one will appear soon ENROLL AT AWS Fargate course Web application traffic is mostly not stable. Promotions, advertising campaigns, night/day hours – all that cause fluctuations at loading. Managing these unpredictable fluctuations can be a challenge. The...
Cost and performance optimizations at AWS Cloud
Hi, DevOps fans That is a general wrapper topic, rather then article by itself, where I am going to aggregate different posts related with cost and performance optimizations at AWS cloud. As you know, AWS Cloud is a huge “combine” with hundreds of services, ant it’s costs appears to be high in many cases. Though there are some standard and much more less obvious things, that can...
AWS devops: ElasticSearch at AWS with terraform and ansible
Udemy Coupon: DEVOPSSALESJUNE – active 02.06.2025-02.07.2025 in case coupons are already expired, please check that page regularly – new one will appear soon; ENROLL AT AWS devops course Are you interested in docker orchestration? Would you like to uncover deep insights and pitfalls of AWS? Do you want to see the real power of Terraform and Ansible at real commercial examples? Or maybe you...
AWS OpenSearch Benchmarks – Part 1
Hi, DevOps fans Recently, 04.12.2023-05.12.2023. I have a pleasant occasion to perform AWS OpenSearch service performance benchmarks. The reason for that has a rather long story, but I will try to shorten it as much as possible. There is one application that uses Elasticsearch for performing different search operations. I will call it “Search App” below in text. Current application was migrated...